Awards

During the Gala Dinner on November 22, MSC.Software proudly honored the following people and organizations for outstanding achievements related to our solutions.

Dr. Gero Pflanz, EK-21, BMW
For the pioneer work related to Simulation Data Management resulting into MSC.Software's new product MSC.SimManager.

Chris Giliomee, LMT Land Mobility Technologies
LMT has made use of the widest range of MSC.VPD solutions in the defense industry in EMEA. Additionally they currently support MSC.Software in MSC.Dytran research work to explore the effects of uncertainty in blasts and impact analyses.

Micko Björck, Bombardier Transportation
For being a visionary in VPD and taking initiative to harmonize CAE tools and processes.

Alexander McLaughlin, Westland Helicopters
Alexander McLaughlin has been a long time user of MSC software from the early days of running Nastran to the adoption of a wider spectrum of MSC products. has been a strong advocate of integrated 'best-in-class' solutions and was an enthusiastic supporter of a closer relationship between Dassault and MSC to bring the 'best-in-class' design tools together.

Fabrice Laturelle, SNECMA Propulsion Solide
For the longstanding partnership and the ignificant contribution in enhancing MSC.Marc, namely in ATAS & the parallel processing development.

Dr. Aldo Salvetti, Alenia Aeronautica
Dr. Salvetti started to use MSC.Nastran in the early 70s one a 158 (OS 360 - Ram 1 Mb - 2-3 Mb of Disk) and followed the evolution of simulation software this first computer, through CRAY servers, UNIX workstations and Linux Clusters. He is a strong advocate of the VPD approach and has been responsible for the introduction of MSC.MasterKey at Alenia Aeronautica.

Juan José Sánchez Valero, Gestamp Automocion
for being an outrider in utilizing new MSC.Software technologies.

José Luis Osoro Larruscain, GAMESA Aeronáutica
GAMESA Aeronáutica are always incorporating new technologies offered by MSC.Software with a great interest. Moreover they are helping us enormously to develope new products or new features by investing substancial energy in benchmarcking with real-life models.

Manfred Harms, Airbus
For the continued support in developing products like MSC.Nastran and MSC.Patran and its significant impact on major enhancements for MSC.Software's core products.

Andreas Schubert, Viessmann Werke
Innovation Price for joint development of new approach in welding simulations named "SWAP3D". SWAP3D enables users to deduce results of a concept-conformal volume model from a global shell model. This approach implictes several clear advantages.

Martin Kieltsch, Volkswagen AG (854 total posts)
Prof. Michael Gipser, Fachhochschule Esslingen (114 total posts)
MSC.Software would like to award and honour their active participation in the MSC.Software forums. The MSC.Software forums provide a platform for MSC.Software employees and especially for our customers to discuss the use of MSC.Software's various products and VPD offerings. The forums are designated by Product Family names (e.g. MSC.Nastran, MSC.Actran, MSC.ADAMS, etc.) and allow an active discussion between development experts and users of our Software.